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I love levelling compound. So easy to use and get extremely pleasing results. Worth remembering to have the mixing paddle on slow, and (as you probably know anyway) add the powder to the water and not the other way round.

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Yes Dex, watched a YouTube on it, the guy kept stressing the importance of accurately measuring the water and powder content.

Used this to seal the floor.

Just seen the date on it!

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Think that's the manufacturing date to help identify batch number.

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Can I use that stuff neat?

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Would imagine so. But the usage guides suggest diluting it down, presumably to aid it soak into the surface.

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Belt and Braces again maybe, it had one coat a month ago, and once levelled will be ceramic tiled, best left as, nowt to be gained from another coat.

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Agree. Main purpose of it is to seal the existing floor so that water from the compound stays in the compound to help it set rather than let it leach out too quickly. A bit of moisture from the compound will probably reinvigorate (for want of a better word) a bit of tackiness in the dried primer and help it stick anyway.

Might be worth using what's left on the compound to seal it for the purposes of the tile adhesive. Otherwise you'll just be left with half a tub of primer, which will end up taking up space somewhere, 'cos you won't have the heart to sling it away "just in case"

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Yep, the half tub would be behind the new shed for eternity.

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Go on, slop it on. Only take you 10 mins and you've only got to wait a couple of hours for it to go off. As far as I can make out from the shadow, you've only used 1/3 of it so far. One more coat on the concrete and one on the compound. Then you can happily sling the empty tub away.

You know it makes sense

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Yep. its probably something I have to do, just to be sure, and to defy the YouTubers, I will feel better it, possibly.